Women's Brick Initiative logo
Women's Brick Initiative

Blog

We have lots to say about little plastic bricks!

Timeline of Female Minifigures

By Stephanie TaylorEditor’s note: Thanks to some terrific input from the AFOL community, it’s been brought to our attention that some of the data presented...
Read More

Watch this space!

After an incredibly busy summer, our interns are back off to school (virtually). We’re now almost ready to start sharing everything that we’ve been working...
Read More

Meet Our Interns!

Thanks to our partnership with Smith College, WBI is pleased to share that we have five interns this summer!  Have you ever wondered how many...
Read More

The Duck Build!

Hanging out in a pond of ducks! At the Holiday Ornament building meet-up in December we decided that we wanted to have some kind of...
Read More

Bricks Cascade Workshop

WBI attendees at Bricks Cascade 2020 by Will NickelsonAnother Bricks Cascade Women’s Brick Initiative workshop is in the bag! 25+attendees explored micro building, adding lights,...
Read More

Gender Balance in LEGO City – an update

Periodically Richard Jones at The Rambling Brick takes an in-depth look at gender balance in LEGO City. We love his analysis so much we use...
Read More

Lighting Workshop at Bricks Cascade

Bricks Cascade is right around the corner and we are super excited to be debuting this years workshop theme – Lighting. Last year we introduced...
Read More

New Logo Design!

We’re super happy to show off our new, redesigned logos! These new logos, while similar to our earlier logo, differ slightly ago reflect our clarified...
Read More

Duck Collaboration for Bricks Cascade

The WBI would like to invite you to join us in a collaborative build for Bricks Cascade in Portland, Oregon, Feb 28th – March 1st....
Read More

The Meeting of the Minds

Last weekend all of us from the board of The Women’s Brick Initiative had a retreat. Alice, Shelly, Joyti, Megan, and myself discussed our plans...
Read More

Better Together – building competition wrap up

Its time to wrap-up our first building competition: Better Together. When we announced our first contest back in early November our main goal was to...
Read More

Making holiday ornaments with the WBI

Love this design by Chris McVeigh! Recently we had our first in-person LUG meeting and it was awesome! Alice invited all the local members of...
Read More